Re: My LyX seems broken

2007-04-14 Thread John B. Egger
Elver, I'm not knowledgeable enough to solve your problem, but I'm using 1.4.3 (running Xandros) and did a little editing of your file (selecting text with shift-arrow keys) and then Ctrl-S saving it, and that worked fine. There's a slight chance this information may be useful to you. Very

Re: My LyX seems broken

2007-04-14 Thread John B. Egger
Elver, I'm not knowledgeable enough to solve your problem, but I'm using 1.4.3 (running Xandros) and did a little editing of your file (selecting text with shift-arrow keys) and then Ctrl-S saving it, and that worked fine. There's a slight chance this information may be useful to you. Very

Re: My LyX seems broken

2007-04-14 Thread John B. Egger
Elver, I'm not knowledgeable enough to solve your problem, but I'm using 1.4.3 (running Xandros) and did a little editing of your file (selecting text with shift-arrow keys) and then Ctrl-S saving it, and that worked fine. There's a slight chance this information may be useful to you. Very

Changes to defaults

2006-12-16 Thread John B. Egger
This is a really newbie-type question, so feel free to point me to the proper place in the User's Guide or elsewhere. I've looked through it without finding the answer. I'm using 1.4.3 in Linux and Document Class: Book, and would like to change the chapter title and page header formats from

Changes to defaults

2006-12-16 Thread John B. Egger
This is a really newbie-type question, so feel free to point me to the proper place in the User's Guide or elsewhere. I've looked through it without finding the answer. I'm using 1.4.3 in Linux and Document Class: Book, and would like to change the chapter title and page header formats from

Changes to defaults

2006-12-16 Thread John B. Egger
This is a really newbie-type question, so feel free to point me to the proper place in the User's Guide or elsewhere. I've looked through it without finding the answer. I'm using 1.4.3 in Linux and Document Class: Book, and would like to change the chapter title and page header formats from

Re: LyX and Mandriva 2007 X64

2006-11-18 Thread John B. Egger
Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: Am Donnerstag, 16. November 2006 17:00 schrieb Steve Litt: Hi all, If LyX is important to you, do NOT use Mandriva 2007 X64 (the 64 bit version). It comes without LyX, xforms, libXpm, and the necessary qt to compile LyX. After going through three or four levels of

Re: LyX and Mandriva 2007 X64

2006-11-18 Thread John B. Egger
Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: Am Donnerstag, 16. November 2006 17:00 schrieb Steve Litt: Hi all, If LyX is important to you, do NOT use Mandriva 2007 X64 (the 64 bit version). It comes without LyX, xforms, libXpm, and the necessary qt to compile LyX. After going through three or four levels of

Re: LyX and Mandriva 2007 X64

2006-11-18 Thread John B. Egger
Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: Am Donnerstag, 16. November 2006 17:00 schrieb Steve Litt: Hi all, If LyX is important to you, do NOT use Mandriva 2007 X64 (the 64 bit version). It comes without LyX, xforms, libXpm, and the necessary qt to compile LyX. After going through three or four levels of

zlib and 1.4.3

2006-11-12 Thread John B. Egger
I unwisely installed LyX 1.4.3 in my /home/john/Downloads directory, and ./configure gave an error that libz can't be found and to make sure zlib is installed properly. Although I went ahead with make anyway, and LyX 1.4.3 is running, what should I do about this zlib issue? (/usr/lib and

zlib and 1.4.3

2006-11-12 Thread John B. Egger
I unwisely installed LyX 1.4.3 in my /home/john/Downloads directory, and ./configure gave an error that libz can't be found and to make sure zlib is installed properly. Although I went ahead with make anyway, and LyX 1.4.3 is running, what should I do about this zlib issue? (/usr/lib and

zlib and 1.4.3

2006-11-12 Thread John B. Egger
I unwisely installed LyX 1.4.3 in my /home/john/Downloads directory, and ./configure gave an error that libz can't be found and to make sure zlib is installed properly. Although I went ahead with "make" anyway, and LyX 1.4.3 is running, what should I do about this zlib issue? (/usr/lib and

wrap:Figure

2006-11-11 Thread John B. Egger
Using 1.3.4 from the Xandros Linux repository (I know it's old but I don't have 1.4.3 successfully installed yet): I'm trying to insert a graphic (.eps) into the text, with text wrapping on its left. When I choose Insert|Floats|Floatflt Figure, I can paste Ascii text into the resulting box

Re: wrap:Figure

2006-11-11 Thread John B. Egger
Bob Lounsbury wrote: I had never used the wrap figure function, so I played around with it a little. I couldn't reproduce your error message, but I had trouble with inserting a picture and it actually didn't show up (although text would show up) in the pdf file until .. I set the

wrap:Figure

2006-11-11 Thread John B. Egger
Using 1.3.4 from the Xandros Linux repository (I know it's old but I don't have 1.4.3 successfully installed yet): I'm trying to insert a graphic (.eps) into the text, with text wrapping on its left. When I choose Insert|Floats|Floatflt Figure, I can paste Ascii text into the resulting box

Re: wrap:Figure

2006-11-11 Thread John B. Egger
Bob Lounsbury wrote: I had never used the wrap figure function, so I played around with it a little. I couldn't reproduce your error message, but I had trouble with inserting a picture and it actually didn't show up (although text would show up) in the pdf file until .. I set the

wrap:Figure

2006-11-11 Thread John B. Egger
Using 1.3.4 from the Xandros Linux repository (I know it's old but I don't have 1.4.3 successfully installed yet): I'm trying to insert a graphic (.eps) into the text, with text wrapping on its left. When I choose Insert|Floats|Floatflt Figure, I can paste Ascii text into the resulting box

Re: wrap:Figure

2006-11-11 Thread John B. Egger
Bob Lounsbury wrote: I had never used the wrap figure function, so I played around with it a little. I couldn't reproduce your error message, but I had trouble with inserting a picture and it actually didn't show up (although text would show up) in the pdf file until .. I set the

Re: Getting started... What's missing?

2006-05-09 Thread John B. Egger
Rich Shepard wrote: On Sun, 7 May 2006, John B. Egger wrote: I read the instructions in the INSTALL file, and after running ./configure corrected for one error message by installing a KDE Development package from Xandros Networks (for gcc, etc.). But I'm still hung up on the frontend. I've

Re: Getting started... What's missing?

2006-05-09 Thread John B. Egger
Rich Shepard wrote: On Sun, 7 May 2006, John B. Egger wrote: I read the instructions in the INSTALL file, and after running ./configure corrected for one error message by installing a KDE Development package from Xandros Networks (for gcc, etc.). But I'm still hung up on the frontend. I've

Re: Getting started... What's missing?

2006-05-09 Thread John B. Egger
Rich Shepard wrote: On Sun, 7 May 2006, John B. Egger wrote: I read the instructions in the INSTALL file, and after running ./configure corrected for one error message by installing a KDE Development package from Xandros Networks (for gcc, etc.). But I'm still hung up on the frontend. I've

Re: Getting started... What's missing?

2006-05-07 Thread John B. Egger
Rich Shepard wrote: On Sat, 6 May 2006, John B. Egger wrote: I downloaded 1.4.1 and extracted the tar.gz but the rest of the install process looks a bit complicated. John, The process is a simple, five-step one: 1.) tar xzvf filename-a.b.c.tar.gz 2.) cd filename-a.b.c 3

Re: Getting started... What's missing?

2006-05-07 Thread John B. Egger
Michael Abshoff wrote: SNIP Rich, I'm using Xandros 3.0 and have become spoiled by Xandros Networks, where applications are offered that the company has already checked for dependencies (and included them when necessary and safe). I read the instructions in the INSTALL file, and after running

Re: Getting started... What's missing?

2006-05-07 Thread John B. Egger
Rich Shepard wrote: On Sat, 6 May 2006, John B. Egger wrote: I downloaded 1.4.1 and extracted the tar.gz but the rest of the install process looks a bit complicated. John, The process is a simple, five-step one: 1.) tar xzvf filename-a.b.c.tar.gz 2.) cd filename-a.b.c 3

Re: Getting started... What's missing?

2006-05-07 Thread John B. Egger
Michael Abshoff wrote: SNIP Rich, I'm using Xandros 3.0 and have become spoiled by Xandros Networks, where applications are offered that the company has already checked for dependencies (and included them when necessary and safe). I read the instructions in the INSTALL file, and after running

Re: Getting started... What's missing?

2006-05-07 Thread John B. Egger
Rich Shepard wrote: On Sat, 6 May 2006, John B. Egger wrote: I downloaded 1.4.1 and extracted the tar.gz but the rest of the install process looks a bit complicated. John, The process is a simple, five-step one: 1.) tar xzvf 2.) cd filename-a.b.c 3.) ./configure (You can check

Re: Getting started... What's missing?

2006-05-07 Thread John B. Egger
Michael Abshoff wrote: Rich, I'm using Xandros 3.0 and have become spoiled by Xandros Networks, where applications are offered that the company has already checked for dependencies (and included them when necessary and safe). I read the instructions in the INSTALL file, and after running

Getting started... What's missing?

2006-05-06 Thread John B. Egger
My Linux installation is LyX 1.3.4. Here's my rank-beginner's question: How do I get the text I'm typing to show spaces and punctuation marks? I'm following the Tutorial, and only seeing Whynospacesinmytestfile? (except that the ? is an omega, and so forth). When I view it with the DVI viewer

Re: Getting started... What's missing?

2006-05-06 Thread John B. Egger
Rich Shepard wrote: On Sat, 6 May 2006, John B. Egger wrote: My Linux installation is LyX 1.3.4. John, Perhaps you meant that your LyX version is 1.3.4. That's very old. Get the 1.4.1 version; there may well be a ready-to-install version for your flavor of linux distribution. Here's

Getting started... What's missing?

2006-05-06 Thread John B. Egger
My Linux installation is LyX 1.3.4. Here's my rank-beginner's question: How do I get the text I'm typing to show spaces and punctuation marks? I'm following the Tutorial, and only seeing Whynospacesinmytestfile? (except that the ? is an omega, and so forth). When I view it with the DVI viewer

Re: Getting started... What's missing?

2006-05-06 Thread John B. Egger
Rich Shepard wrote: On Sat, 6 May 2006, John B. Egger wrote: My Linux installation is LyX 1.3.4. John, Perhaps you meant that your LyX version is 1.3.4. That's very old. Get the 1.4.1 version; there may well be a ready-to-install version for your flavor of linux distribution. Here's

Getting started... What's missing?

2006-05-06 Thread John B. Egger
My Linux installation is LyX 1.3.4. Here's my rank-beginner's question: How do I get the text I'm typing to show spaces and punctuation marks? I'm following the Tutorial, and only seeing Whynospacesinmytestfile? (except that the ? is an omega, and so forth). When I view it with the DVI viewer

Re: Getting started... What's missing?

2006-05-06 Thread John B. Egger
Rich Shepard wrote: On Sat, 6 May 2006, John B. Egger wrote: My Linux installation is LyX 1.3.4. John, Perhaps you meant that your LyX version is 1.3.4. That's very old. Get the 1.4.1 version; there may well be a ready-to-install version for your flavor of linux distribution. Here's